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While enjoying an evening walk at Douglas Lake in East Tennessee, 11-year-old Ryleigh Taylor stumbled upon a magnificent discovery: the 475-million-year-old fossilized remains of an ancient sea creature called a trilobite...

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient middle finger bone in Saudia Arabia, and it could completely change what we know about human migration. An 85,000-year-old bone belonging to Homo sapiens marks the first evidence...

Fossils in Africa from the Late Cretaceous time period - around 100 to 66 million years ago - are rare. Scientists have been largely kept in the dark about the course of dinosaur evolution on the continent, but a new dinosaur...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known fossil of a modern human outside of Africa in Misliya Cave near Mount Carmel, Israel. The discovery reveals that modern humans left Africa at least 50,000 years earlier than previously...

Scientists recently uncovered the largest group of fossilized pterosaur eggs ever. In a 10-foot-long sandstone block in northwest China, they came across 215 eggs - 16 of which have embryonic remains. Discoveries of pterosaur...

Pterosaurs roamed the skies long ago as the first animals to evolve powered flight after insects - and in the Gobi Desert, scientists recently found the remains of one that could have been nearly as big as a small aircraft...

Sometimes, there are benefits to being clumsy - so discovered 9-year-old Jude Sparks on a recent hike in New Mexico's Orange Mountains. On a trip with his family, Sparks tripped over an object which he first thought was “just...

Twenty-five years ago, a mysterious egg was discovered. For a good portion of that time, the unknown specimen that failed to hatch has been studied by paleontologists of the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Finally,...

Around four billion years ago, bacteria formed tiny tubes and filaments, likely in deep-sea hydrothermal vents. An international team of scientists lead by the University College London (UCL) recently discovered those microorganism...

With the discovery of a tooth here or a bone fragment there, archaeologists piece together the history of humanity - and a recent discovery on the Indonesian island of Flores provides new insight into human evolution...